News archive

News Archive

March 9th, 2016 - The Legendary Lexicon, 2nd Edition!

Spatterlight (the international branch of Spatterlight Press) is excited to present an extended, revised, and re-indexed 2nd edition of the almost legendary 1992 Jack Vance Lexicon by Dan Temianka. This new compendium of coined words, titled The Jack Vance Lexicon: from Abiloid to Zygage is available from Amazon in trade paperback and ebook formats.

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May 25th, 2016 - New Spanish Tschai Edition

Tyrannosaurus Books are releasing a new Spanish translation of Tschai, based upon the restored text of the Vance Integral Edition. The first volume Los Chasch is now available from Amazon, Cyberdark, Tyrannosaurus, and from a variety of bookstores like Fnac, El Corte Inglés, Casa del Libro, and Gigamesh.

Spatterlight Press is beginning a new phase of expansion, and once again seeks talented individuals interested in providing artwork to cover our ebooks and soon-to-come POD print editions. If you are interested in contributing, please contact us.

December 2nd, 2014 - Spatterlight YouTube channel

The Spatterlight YouTube channel just went live, dedicated to everything Jack Vance. We're adding more promo clips for the books in the coming weeks, and some other fun video material is in the making! Please go have a look, give thumbs up if you like it, leave comments, and subscribe for more! Please visit The Spatterlight YouTube channel

September 1st, 2014 - Dying Earth RPG

Through the month of August, Spatterlight customers enjoyed a free e-book version of the award-winning Dying Earth RPG from Pelgrane Press. The book is a game, but also a repository of locales, spells, characters and even recipes from The Dying Earth series of books. For more information please visit Pelgrane Press.

June 19th, 2014 - New Lyonesse cover art

Suldrun's Garden and The Green Pearl got a makeover. Luc Desmarchelier, who created the Lyonesse omnibus cover earlier, now also finished two wonderful new covers for the first two books in the Lyonesse series. Check them out in our e-book shop.

May 2nd, 2014 - Gaean Reach tabletop roleplaying game

Long-time publishing partner Pelgrane Press will soon release its Gaean Reach tabletop roleplaying game which focuses on a Vancean trope – vengeance. Players devise their nemesis, the terrible things he has done to them and then they hunt him down through the cosmos. The book is supported by a Gazetteer so you can plan your next jaunt to the glass towers of Alphanor, the Groaning Ocean of Ladaque-Royale, or the Oxygen Marshes of Cuenos Notos. The books are available for pre-order.

July 23rd, 2013 - New Fan Contributions

We have new magnificent fan contributions by Howard Kistler: a set of illustrations inspired by Jack's three Ellery Queen novels which we unfortunately do not have permission to publish, although they have appeared in print as volume 14bis of the limited Vance Integral Edition.

With the release of the Lyonesse, Ports of Call and Alastor omnibuses the entire ebook collection of Jack Vance's work is complete. We've also added a recent signature of Jack to the title page of every ebook. And we reintroduced the old covers, so you can download the version with the cover you like best. All new and updated books can be found in the ebook shop and your ebook library.

April 13th, 2013 - Fan Contributions

Vance fans are creative people. In the past we've highlighted essays, books inspired by Jack's work, cover art and even an entire opera, but as of today we're also able to show you some of the immensely creative artwork fans have created in our Fan Contributions Gallery.

Even though we also liked the old ones, Joe Bergeron and C. Michael Taylor created great new covers for Night Lamp and Maske: Thaery. You'll find them in the book shop. This month we'll also have a few other surprises for you, so keep an eye out for news on Twitter and Facebook in the coming weeks.

March 1st, 2013 - Good Music Always Defeats Bad Luck

Together with a really stunning new cover for Trullion: Alastor 2262 by Jasper Schreurs and a new Awards Photo Gallery, we're proud to be able to bring you never before published new work of Jack Vance: The Go for Broke Jazz Band.

This month we're introducing the Durdane, Big Planet and Joe Bain omnibuses. All Big Planet titles got a cover overhaul by David Russell and the two new covers by Howard Kistler complete the entire set of mysteries.

Space Opera - the Musical is Joe St. Johanser's adaptation of Jack Vance's 1955 novel as a libretto for his fourth opera, endeavouring to retain Vance's wit, style and imagery and to render in music Vance's unique way of leaving his readers philosophically elevated, calm and filled with well-being and now available exclusively as a digital download on jackvance.com.

New omnibuses this month are The Cadwal Chronicles and The Dying Earth. And again two great cover makeovers by Howard Kistler for Strange People, Queer Notions and Jack's autobiography. Check them out in the e-book shop.

November 28th, 2012 - Meet Everett Coles

Jack Everett and David Coles write books together under the name Everett Coles. They wrote two great books as an homage to Jack Vance and specifically to "The Demon Princes" series, called "The Faces of Immortality" and "To Rule the Universe".

This month we're introducing omnibuses: get the complete Tschai series, Demon Princes series and the Miro Hetzel novels in a single e-book with a nice discount. This release also includes nice cover makeovers for the Cadwal Chronicles series by Howard Kistler.

With the October release of "Space Opera" and "Rhialto the Marvellous" all of Jack Vance's work is now available in e-book format. This release also includes 4 beautiful mystery cover makeovers by Howard Kistler.

For our upcoming releases we are looking for a Vance enthusiast who is willing and able to contribute to the book descriptions on jackvance.com and external sites. If this is you, please contact us as soon as possible.

July 22nd, 2012 - Get "The Chasch" for free

If you're anything like us, you probably wish more people were reading Jack Vance's work. Well, now is the time to introduce your friends to Jack Vance. For a limited time we're making the first novel of Jack Vance's famous "Tschai" series available for free.